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Evergreen Elementary School

Our school is a magnet school for second language acquisition. The center piece of our program is our Dual Language Enrichment Program (DLEP). The program is currently implemented in grades kindergarten through 5th grades.Graduation Matters Shelton

Parents Be Aware: Vaping Popular Among Teens

(Date Posted 11/8/2018)

Parents Be Aware: Vaping Popular Among Teens

E-cigarettes, also known as vapes, are battery-operated devices that heat up liquid nicotine to generate an aerosol that users inhale. Smoking e-cigs is more discreet and easier to get away with than traditional cigarettes. New research estimates that about 3 million adolescents vape.

Vaping is one of the current trends hitting schools. And vaping devices are difficult for parents, teachers and school officials to detect than cigarettes. E-cigs come in many forms. They can resemble traditional tobacco cigarettes, cigars, pipes and even normal everyday items including pens and, gaining in popularity due to its discreteness, USB memory sticks, which are called Juuls. The explosive use of Juuls among teenagers has health experts and parents alike extremely concerned due to the device’s high nicotine content. Each Juul pod contains 5% nicotine, the equivalent of 1 pack of cigarettes or 200 puffs. Youth often believe that the liquid used in vaping only contains water and flavoring and are unaware that it contains nicotine. Therefore, they may think vaping is less dangerous than using other tobacco products, such as cigarettes. The amount of nicotine in the liquid can be the same or even more than the amount found in cigarettes.

Surveys have found among those who reported vaping, nearly 1 in 3 high school students and about 1 in 4 middle school students reported using cannabis in the devices.

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